Civil Rights

By Haley Williams

  • 14th Amendment

    Granted citizenship to all people born in the US.

  • 15th Amendment

    This Amendment allowed the African American men to vote.

  • Jim Crow Laws

    They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans.

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    A case upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".

  • Amendment

    a formal change to the text of the written constitution of a nation or state.

  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

    The NAACP offers assistance to African Americans with regards to matters involving civil rights

  • 19th Amendment

    Gave the right to vote to women.

  • Cesar Chavez

    Championed the economic rights of migrant workers.

  • Social Security

    A limited form of the Social Security program began, during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term. You get Social Security when you are 65, it money the government gives you.

  • League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)

    Offers assistance to Hispanic Americans with regards to matters involving civil rights.

  • March on Washington

    The March on Washington Movement was formed as a tool to organize a mass march on Washington, D.C., designed to pressure the U.S. government into desegregating the armed forces and providing fair working opportunities for African Americans.

  • Federal Housing Authority

    It insured loans made by banks and other private lenders for home building and home buying.

  • Barbara Jordan

    She was the first african american texas senate. she was also an american politician and leader of the civil rights movement.

  • Delgado v. Bastrop ISD

    Landmark case in Texas that dealt with racial segregation

  • Congress on Racial Equality (CORE)

    A U.S. civil rights organization that played a pivotal role for African-Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.

  • Mendez v. Westminster

    case that challenged racial segregation in Orange County, California schools. In its ruling, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,held that the segregation of Mexican and Mexican American students into separate "Mexican schools" was unconstitutional.

  • George Wallace

    45th Governor of Alabama.He eventually renounced segregationism but remained a populist. He tried to stop African Americans from enrolling into school.

  • Hector P. Garcia

    He was a Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum.

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson.

  • Civil Rights Movement

    A worldwide political movement for equality before the law.

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    case that decided that Mexican Americans and all other racial groups in the United States had equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas

    This was a Court Case that successfully overturned the Plessey v. Ferguson decision by applying that “separate is inherently unequal”

  • Rosa Parks

    Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement"

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    seminal event in the U.S. civil rights movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

    an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The SCLC had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement

  • Orval Faubus

    he is best known for standing against the desegregation of the Little Rock School District during the Little Rock Crisis, in which he defied a ordering to stop African-American students from attending Little Rock Central High School.

  • Civil Rights Act 1957

    primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress in the United States since Reconstruction following the American Civil War.

  • Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

    SNCC grew into a large organization with many supporters in the North who helped raise funds to support SNCC's work in the South, allowing full-time SNCC workers to have a $10 per week salary

  • Affirmative Action

    it was used to promote actions that achieve non-discrimination.

  • Betty Friedan

    She wrote the book "The Feminine Mystique" in an effort to allow women to choose the lifestyles they wanted

  • Great Society

    Medicare, Head Start, Upward Bound

  • Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Civil Rights Leader most associated with the March on Washington as well as winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • Lyndon Baines Johnson

    Johnson succeeded to the presidency following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Johnson is ranked favorably by some historians because of his domestic policies.

  • 24th Amendment

    Passed to prevent voting discrimination against the poor by outlawing poll taxes.

  • Civil Rights Act 1964

    Differed from earlier attempts to address minority rights by focusing on ending discrimination in the work place.

  • Voting Rights Act 1965

    African Americans were now allowed to vote in the United States.

  • Head Start

    “The Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) was unquestionably the most famous Head Start program in Project Head Start’s early years

  • Medicare

    Guarantees access to health insurance for Americans ages 65 and older and younger people with disabilities.

  • Upward Bound

    To provide certain categories of high school students better opportunities for attending college.

  • United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC)

    This union changed from a workers' rights organization that helped workers get unemployment insurance to that of a union of farmworkers almost overnight, when the NFWA went out on strike in support of the mostly Filipino farmworkers of the AWOC in Delano, California who had previously initiated a grape strike.

  • Non-Violent Protests

    was the practice of achieving goals through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, and other methods, without using violence

  • National Organization for Women (NOW)

    The six core issues that NOW addresses are abortion rights/reproductive issues, violence against women, constitutional equality, promoting diversity/ending racism, lesbian rights, and economic justice.

  • Black Panthers

    Used strategies to achieve equal rights, which included violent forms of protest as well as militant groups.

  • 25th Amendment

    If the President of the United State dies in office, the Vice President will assume the position of the presidency

  • Thurgood Marshall

    Distinguished lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, and supporter of the rights of Americans with little voice in government .

  • American Indian Movement (AIM)

    The organization was formed to address various issues concerning the Native American urban community in Minneapolis, including poverty, housing, treaty issues, and police harassment.

  • Militant Protests

    The African Americans were tired of being beaten in and pushed around so they finally started fighting back. They started riots and fires to start getting their points across.

  • Tinker v. De Moines

    Ruling was that the 1st Amendment applies to public schools with regards to regulating speech in the classroom

  • La Raza Unida (Mexican Americans United),

    was an American political party centered on Chicano nationalism. The Party campaigned for better housing, work, and educational opportunities for Mexican-Americans.

  • 26th Amendment

    Thia Amendment allowed the citizens that were 18 to vote, people didnt understand why at the age 18 people were being drafted to war but couldnt vote. it was unfair.

  • Title IX

    Portion of the Education Amendments.

  • Edgewood ISD v. Kirby

    Landmark case in Texas, redistributed property taxes to poorer districts, led to Robin Hood legislation.

  • Eleanor Roosevelt & Delores Huerta

    Civil rights leaders that advocated for the basic rights of all citizens

  • Sonia Sotomayor

    Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Sotomayor is the Court's 111th justice, its first Hispanic justice, and its third female justice.